Prof. A. Murali Krishna is a faculty member at IIT Tirupati. He obtained his Ph. D degree from IISc Bangalore; M.Tech degree from IIT Kanpur and B.Tech from SVUniversity, Tirupati. His research interests include: Earthquake Geotechnics, Geosynthetics and Ground Improvement, Site characterization; Numerical and Physical modelling of geotechnical structures. He supervised 7 Doctoral students and 24 Masters students; co-authored nearly 200 publications of technical papers. He is a recipient of BRNS Young Scientist Research award, BOYSCAST fellowship and HERTAGE fellowship. Prof. Murali Krishna is currently serving as a Member of TC203 of ISSMGE, since 2011. He served as an IGS ‘Executive Member’ for five terms (2011-2018, 2020-22) and organised several national and international workshops and short courses, in particular IGC 2017 at IIT Guwahati. He is a consultant for several projects as well as a reviewer for several national and international journals.